Commitments and Contingencies Commitments and Contingencies - Advances From Customers (Details) (USD $)	Sep. 29, 2013		Dec. 30, 2012
Schedule of Estimated Utilization of Advances From Customers [Line Items]
Customer Advances, Current	$ 44,977,000	[1]	$ 59,648,000	[1]
Customer Advances, Noncurrent	170,798,000	[1]	236,082,000	[1]
2013	17,980,000
2014	30,512,000
2015	18,387,000
2016	22,713,000
2017	27,039,000
Thereafter	99,144,000
Total	215,775,000
Letters of Credit Outstanding, Amount			32,000,000
Receivables, Net, Current			7,600,000
Customer, Polysilicon Purchaser [Member]
Schedule of Estimated Utilization of Advances From Customers [Line Items]
Customer Advances and Deposits			56,100,000
Customer Advances, Current			8,100,000
Customer, AUOSP [Member]
Schedule of Estimated Utilization of Advances From Customers [Line Items]
Customer Advances and Deposits	184,400,000		190,100,000
Customer Advances, Current	13,600,000		8,800,000
Equipment [Member]
Schedule of Estimated Utilization of Advances From Customers [Line Items]
Collateralized equipment			$ 16,500,000

[1] The Company has related party balances in connection with transactions made with Total and its affiliates as well as unconsolidated entities in which the Company has a direct equity investment. These related party balances are recorded within the "Prepaid expenses and other current assets," "Other long-term assets," "Accounts payable," "Customer advances, current portion," "Convertible debt, net of current portion," and "Customer advances, net of current portion" financial statement line items in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (see Note 2, Note 4, Note 5, Note 7, and Note 8).